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APPARATUS FORSETTING TYPE.

No. 348,836. Patented Sept. 7, 1886.

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UNITED STATES CARL GUSTAV FISCHER,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF SGHLOSS HOLTE BRAOIUVEDE, NEAR BIELEFELD,

VESTPHALIA, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR SETTING TYPE.

EZPEGEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 348,836, dated September 7, 1886.

Application filed July 10, 1885. Serial No. 171,213. (No model.) Patented in Germany September 14,1884, No. 31,952, and in France January 24, 1885, No.166,630.

To all whom it 11mg concern.-

Be it known that I, CARL GUSTAV FIscHER, engineer, a subject of the King of Prussia, and residing at Schloss Holte Brackwede, near 5 Bielefeld,Vestphalia,Germany,haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Apparatuses for Facilitating the Setting of Type by Hand, (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Germany, September 14, 1884, No. 31,992, and

I France, January 24, 1885, No. 166,630,) of

which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to apparatusesby means of which printing-types regularly stored up in a series of parallel cases are individually I pushed forward, so as to project from the cases and to be ready for being grasped and withdrawn by the compositor; and the improvements consist in the particular combination, with the type-cases, of type-ejectors worked simultaneously by mechanism in the construction and mode of securing the type-cases, and in the arrangement of the ejectors in respect to each other.

On the annexed sheet of drawings, Figures 2 5 1 and 2 show, respectively, in rear and'front elevation, an apparatus constructed according to my invention. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view, and Fig. 4 a top view, partly in section. Fig. 5 shows in section and full size two bars constituting the type-cases.

The apparatus consists substantially of the stationary type-cases a e, arranged in asingle row, and of the type-ejectors Z, fixed to the standards or, secured to the bar g, which is moved to and fro by mechanical means. The

type-cases are formed by plates or bars a, having on one side at theirlongitudinal edges projectingflangese. (Seeespecially Fig.5.) These bars are placed by the side of each other, so

0 that between them channels will be produced, each of which is adapted to receive a column of types, the types lying with their sides one upon the other. The flanges e are, however, only about half as high as the body of the 4 5 types, in consequence whereof slits will be left between the flanges e of one bar and the fiat back of the neighboring bar. These slits allow the types to be seen, and through them a narrow instrument may be introduced for the purpose of slowly lowering a column of types when the case is to be filled, or for withdrawing types. On the side having the flanges e or inner side each bar a is provided at the proper height with a transverse piece, h, forming the bottom on which the column of types rests. 5 5 Immediately above this piece a portion of the front flange e is removed, and the opening thus produced is so far closed by a spring, 122, that only the one type which is at the foot of the column can be pushed out at a time. On these springs may be fixed plates showing the denominatioi of the types contained in the cases. Opposite to the opening for the issue of the type the back flange 6 has a notch for the passage of the ejector. The ejectors are fixed in oblique rows to a number of small standards, 0, and preferably upon steps of the same. These standards, of which, however, only one is shown in the drawings, are secured to a bar, q, guided in slots 1) of the two frame parts I) of the apparatus. The bar q is connected at its ends by means of pivots and bars 0 to eccentrics a, keyed on the shaft 15, so that when this shaft is rotated the bar q will be put into transverse reciprocating motion, and 7 a all the ejectors simultaneously moved backward and forward. The ejectors will consequently push forward at the same time all types which are in their original position at the bottom of a column, such of the ejectors as 80.

are opposite to types already advanced moving to and fro in the spaces between the types next to the lowest ones and the bottom pieces,

h. In any case, after each stroke of the ejectors, the lowest types of all columns will have been pushed forward, so that the compositor may seize them. The shaft k may be rotated by any suitable means.

The system of arranging the ejectors and the corresponding portions of the type-cases 0 in oblique rows presents the advantage that the type-cases may be brought very close together, while the distance between the types projecting from the cases is sufficiently great that every type may be seized Without incon- 5 venience. Besides, the arrangement allows the points of issue of the types to be distributed alike to the boxes of the common typecases. The disposition of the typecases in a single row presents, moreover, the advantage that the cases are easily accessible from both sides, and that they may be filled from the rear while the apparatus is working, and without hindrance to the compositor.

The bars a may be removably fixedin their position in various manners; but I prefer the following arrangement for this purpose. The bars are inserted with their foot,which is snitably recessed, into notches turned into the bard, Figs. 2 and 3. They are thereby secured at this point against any lateral displacement. At the top they are suspended with a hookshaped projection, i, on a ledge, f, of corresponding form, on the upper cross-bar, c, of the apparatus, and prevented from being accidentally lifted by pins 9, extending through the bar a into the bars a. With this arrange ment any one of the bars a may easily be taken out. In the drawings the said bars are shown as having a vertical position. They may, however, also be inclined backward or forward.

I claim as my invention 1. In an apparatus for facilitating the setting of types by hand, the combination,witha plurality of stationary channel-like type-cases arranged in a row having the bottom pieces,

71, of the type-ejectors Z, fixed in oblique rows to a reciprocating piece of machinery and adapted to simultaneously push forward the lowest types of all the type-columns which,

rest on the bottom pieces, h, arranged just below the path of the respective ejectors Z, substantiall y as and for the purpose described.

2. In an apparatus comprising arow of stationary channel-like type-cases and anumber of reciprocating type-ejectors operating as described, the type-cases consisting of bars a, having projecting flanges a, each case being closed on one side by the back of the neigh 

